BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military death toll reached 2,000 with the death of an Army sergeant who was wounded by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad and died in Texas last weekend. A Pentagon announcement Tuesday said Staff Sgt. George T. Alexander Jr., 34, of Killeen, Texas, died in San Antonio, Texas. The death raised the Associated Press tally of military fatalities in the Iraq war to 2,000. Alexander was wounded Oct. 17 in Samarra, a town 60 miles north of the Iraqi capital. He was assigned to the 1st Batallion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga.

I wrote this at Dream Out Loud so I hope the moderators allow me to post it here as well.

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Yes.....time and it's perception.......

2000 American troops have lost their lives as of today {October 25, 2005) since the war in Iraq began.............admiration to those "knights"...their shining armor reflecting through the camouflage..............a light through the darkness of it all.....
Bless them and their families........